Math 233: Multivariable Calculus, Fall 2007

Look for updates in Announcement sections below, near each exam time

Course Chair

Michael Sullivan, 1544 LGRT, (413) 545-1909.
Email: my last name at math dot umass dot edu.
Office hours: Tues 12:30-2:30, Thurs 10:10-11:10.

Coursewide TA

Viktor Grigoryan, 1323E LGRT, (413) 545-0881.
Email: my last name at math dot umass dot edu.
Office hours: Mon 9:00-11:00, Weds 11:00-1:00, Thurs 9:00-11:00
Discussion session: Tues 6-9pm, Room LGRT 101
(The nights before Exam 1 and Exam 2, the review session will be from 4:30-9:00pm. On 10/09 it will be in LGRT 103, on 11/13 it will be in the usual LGRT 101.)

Section Meetings

The office hours listed below may not be up to date. Please check that individual instructor's webpage (follow the link) to confirm his or her office hours.

Section 1   Tom Weston           MWF 10:10-11:00     LGRT 115     Section 1 . Office hours: M 9:00-10:00, W 12:00-1:00 in LGRT 1122.

Section 2   Zhigang Han           MWF 11:15-12:05     LGRT 111     Section 2 . Office hours: M 12:30-2:00, W 12:30-2:00 in LGRT 1340.

Section 3   Evgeny Materov           MWF 1:25-2:15     LGRT 202     Section 3 . Office hours: M 11:00-12:00, W 11:00-12:00, F 11:00-12:00 in LGRT 1238.

Section 4   Zhigang Han           MW 2:30-3:45     LGRT 111     Section 4 . Office hours: M 12:30-2:00, W 12:30-2:00 in LGRT 1340.

Section 5   Arline Norkin           TTh 9:30-10:45     LGRT 321     Section 5 . Office hours: M 9:45-11:00, W 2:45-4:00 in LGRT 1624.

Section 6   Michael Sullivan           TTh 11:15-12:30     LGRT 111     Section 6 . Office hours: T 12:30-2:30, Th 10:10-11:00 in LGRT 1544.

Section 7   Molly Fenn           TTh 1:00-2:15     LGRT 111     Section 7 . Office hours: T 2:30-4:00 at the Blue Wall, W 4:30-5:30 in LGRT 1323D.

Section 8   Michael Sullivan           TTh 2:30-3:45     LGRT 111     Section 8 . Office hours: T 12:30-2:30, Th 10:10-11:10 in LGRT 1544.

Section 9   Viktor Grigoryan           TTh 11:15-12:30     LGRT 121     Section 9 . Office hours: M 9:00-11:00, W 11:00-1:00, Th 9:00-11:00 in LGRT 1323E.

Section 10   Siman Wong           MWF 10:10-11:00     LGRT 123     Section 10 . Office hours: M 11:00-12:00, W 1:30-3:00 in LGRT 1115G.

Office hours

Students are encouraged to attend office hours, including those held by the other instructors. The hours are listed above by instructor, and below by time of week. These hours may not be up-to-date and interested students should consult the individual instructor's section page.

Monday: 9-10 Tom, 9-11 Viktor, 9:45-11 Arline, 11-12 Evgeny, 11-12 Siman, 12:30-2 Zhigang.
Tuesday: 12:30-2:30 Mike, 2:30-4:00 Molly (Blue Wall), 6-9 Viktor (weekly review session LGRT 101).
Wednesday: 11-1 Viktor, 11-12 Evgeny, 12-1 Tom, 12:30-2 Zhigang, 1:30-3 Siman, 2:45-4 Arline, 4:30-5:30 Molly.
Thursday: 9-11 Viktor, 10:10-11:10 Mike.
Friday: 11-12 Evgeny.

Textbook

Calculus: Early Transcendentals (5th Edition) by James Stewart. The text book annex now has a small packet with chapter 10 which costs $7.75; if you have the "big" book then it has this chapter in it.

Exam Schedule

Exam 1: October 10 (Wednesday), Time 7:00-9:00 pm.
Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam more than 30 minutes late. For the room see the Exam 1 announcements below.

Exam 2: November 14 (Wednesday. NOTE: THIS IS A MONDAY SCHEDULE), Time 7:00-9:00 pm.
Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam more than 30 minutes late. For the room see the Exam 2 announcements below.

Final Exam: December 17, 1:30pm, Totman Gym
The snow policy can be found under "special announcements" below. Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam more than 30 minutes late.

Important Policies

  • Make-up Exams
  • Calculators

    Important Announcement --- Exam 1

    The following is the assignment of exam location for each section for Exam 1 at 7:00-9:00pm on October 10 2007:

    Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in MARC0131 (Marcus 131)
    Section 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in HASA0020 (Hasbrouck 20)

    Exam 1 will cover up to Section 13.4 in the text.

    Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam more than 30 minutes late. There will be no uniform make-up exams, you must contact your individual instructor. Do not bring any cheat sheets to the exam. Please bring your student ID to the exam!

    Below are some practise problems offered in previous semesters, as well as Exam 1 from Fall 2006 and Spring 2007. Because the exams are not always offered at the same exact point in the semester, the content of Exam 1 this semester may be slightly more or less, depending on the pace of this course.

    Note that in the following practice exams there are questions concerning linear approximations, partial derivatives, and describing the tangent plane at some point on a graph and other material from section 14. There will be no material from section 14 on this midterm.

  • Practice Problems for Exam 1
  • Answers
  • Exam 1 from Fall 2006
  • Answers
  • Formula Sheet (to be included in Exam 1)
  • Exam 1 from Spring 2007 with answers
  • Exam 1 from Fall 2007 with answers.
  • Click on this link for the distribution of scores over all 10 sections for Exam 1: Distribution

    Important Announcement --- Exam 2

    The following is the assignment of exam location for each section for Exam 2 at 7:00-9:00pm on November 14, 2007:

    Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in MARC0131 (Marcus 131)
    Section 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in HASA0020 (Hasbrouck 20)

    Exam 2 will cover Sections 14.1 - 15.2

    Note that the practice exams below are missing problems on basic calculation of partial derivatives, finding the tangent plane to a graph or a surface, and finding the linear approximation to a function in more than 1 variable, material that will appear on Exam 2. Practice problems on this missing material can be found on the practice exams for Exam 1. Note also that Question 11(2) in the practice problems, and Question 6 in the Spring 2007 exam, are related to Section 15.3 (computing a double integral over a region other than a rectangle) and will not be covered on Exam 2.
    Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam more than 30 minutes late. There will be no uniform make-up exams, you must contact your individual instructor. No cheat sheets are allowed to bring to the exam. No formula sheet will be included in the exam this time. Please bring your student ID to the exam!

  • Practice Problems for Exam 2
  • Answers
    Error: the answer for #5 above should be
    x = 3 + 10t, y = 4 - 5t, z = 5 + 2t
  • Problems from Exam 2 Fall 2006 (no answers)
  • Exam 2 Spring 2007 with answers
  • Exam 2 from Fall 2007 with answers
  • Click on this link for the distribution of scores over all 10 sections for Exam 2: Distribution

    Important Announcement --- Final Exam

    All sections will take the Final on Monday December 17 at 1:30pm in the Totman Gym.

    Snow day policy (hot line 545-3630).
    The make-up policy for rescheduling the final exam due to snow is available at
    http://www.umass.edu/af/finals.htm

    If the University is closed until 1:00 pm, the exam will be held as originally scheduled. If the University is closed all day but open in the evening, the exam will be re-scheduled to 6:30 pm next exam day. If the University is closed all afternoon and all evening, the exam will be re-scheduled to 6:30 pm next exam day. If the University is closed all day and all evening, the exam will be re-scheduled to 6:30 pm the exam day after next. Exam location remains unchanged on snow days.

    The final exam will be cumulative, but the majority covers sections 15.3 - 15.5, 16.1-16.4.

    Viktor Grigoryan will run a course-wide review session for the final on Saturday Dec 15 from 4:00-9:00 pm in LGRT 101.

    Please arrive 10 minutes early. You will not be admitted to the exam if you arrive more than 30 minutes after the exam begins. There will be no uniform make-up exams. No cheat sheets are allowed to bring to the exam. No formula sheet will be included in the exam. Please bring your student ID to the exam! Below are some practise problems offered in previous semesters, as well as the Finals from Fall 2006 and Spring 2007.

  • Practice Problems for Final Exam
  • Answers
  • Final Exam from Fall 2006 (no answers)
  • Final Exam from Spring 2007 (no answers)

    Grading

    The final grade will be 25% Exam 1, 25% Exam 2, 25% Final Exam and 25% from Instructor. All scores will be scaled to a 0-100 scale before averaging. The final grading scale is

    A: 88% - 100%         C: 66% - 71%        
    A-: 85% - 88% C-: 63% - 66%
    B+: 82% - 85% D+: 60% - 63%
    B: 77% - 82% D: 55% - 60%
    B-: 74% - 77% F: 0% - 55%
    C+ 71% - 74%

    Weekly Schedule (Tentative)

    Week of Sections Remarks
    Sept 3 12.1, 12.2 First class Tuesday
    Sept 10 12.3, 12.4, 12.5
    Sept 17 12.6, 10.1, 13.1 Add/drop deadline Sept 17
    Sept 24 13.2, 13.3, 13.4
    Oct 1 14.1, 14.2
    Oct 8 14.3, 14.4 No class on Oct 8. Tuesday Oct 9 is a Monday schedule. Exam 1 on Wednesday Oct 10
    Oct 15 14.5, 14.6
    Oct 22 14.7, 14.8
    Oct 29 15.1, 15.2 Withdrawal deadline Oct 29
    Nov 5 15.3, 10.3
    Nov 12 15.4, 15.5 No class on Nov 12. Exam 2 Wednesday Nov 14, which is a Monday schedule
    Nov 19 16.1, 16.2 No class on Thursday or Friday
    Nov 26 16.2, 16.3
    Dec 3 16.4
    Dec 10 Catch-up and review Last day of class on Friday Dec 14

    Homework Assignments

    Section Topic Recommended Homework
    12.1 Three-dimensional coordinate systems 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 23, 31, 41
    12.2 Vectors 1, 3, 5, 11, 15, 19, 21, 25, 31, 37
    12.3 The dot product 5, 7, 9, 11, 17, 19, 21, 23, 27, 37, 39, 43, 51
    12.4 The cross product 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 15, 25, 29, 39, 45
    12.5 Equations of lines and planes 1, 3, 5, 7, 13, 19, 23, 27, 31, 35, 39, 45, 65
    12.6 Cylinders and quadric surfaces 3, 5, 11, 13, 21-28, 41, 43
    10.1 Curves defined by parametric equations
        (omit Examples 4 and 7)
    1, 3, 5, 7, 19, 21
    13.1 Vector functions and space curves 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-24, 33, 35, 39
    13.2 Derivatives and integrals of vector functions 1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 13, 19, 25, 33, 37, 49
    13.3 Arc length (omit curvature) 1, 3, 5
    13.4 Motion in space: velocity and acceleration 3, 5, 9, 11, 15, 19, 23
    14.1 Functions of several variables 11, 13, 23, 25, 29, 37, 39, 41, 53, 53-58
    14.2 Limits and continuity 7, 9, 11, 27, 31
    14.3 Partial derivatives 3, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 35, 37, 41, 47, 49, 81
    14.4 Tangent planes and linear approximations 1, 3, 5, 17, 19, 23, 25, 29, 31
    14.5 The chain rule 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 17, 21, 23, 27, 29, 39
    14.6 Directional derivatives and the gradient vector 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 21, 23, 39, 41, 53, 59
    14.7 Maximum and minimum values 5, 7, 9, 11, 27, 29, 31
    14.8 Lagrange multipliers 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 19
    15.1 Double integrals over rectangles 1, 5, 11, 13
    15.2 Iterated integrals 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 21, 23, 27, 33
    15.3 Double integrals over general regions 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 19, 21, 23, 37, 39, 43, 45, 49
    10.3 Polar coordinates (omit tangents) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15, 21, 23, 29, 31, 39
    15.4 Double integrals in polar coordinates 9, 11, 13, 19, 21, 25, 29, 31
    15.5 Applications of double integrals 3, 5
    16.1 Vector fields 1, 3, 5, 11-18, 21, 25
    16.2 Line integrals 1, 3, 5, 7, 11, 17, 19, 23, 25
    16.3 The fundamental theorem for line integrals 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 19, 21, 23
    16.4 Green's theorem 1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19